Arm sling



.1,621,323 E. M. HORN n ARMSLINQl Filed Aug. 21. 1926 March E15, 19.27. l

Patented Mar.. 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

EFFIE M. HORN, OF P ALISADE, COLORADO.

ARM SLING. l

Application led August 21, 1926.v Serial No. 130,702.

provide a device of this character employ-` ing two shoulder straps so connected therewith that each shoulder' strap bears the proper proportion of the weight of the arm and undue strain from the straps u on either end of the tubular receptacle wit in which the arm is arranged is prevented., i

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose of-illus tration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a sling constructed in accordance with my invention applied to the body of a person;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the sling removed;

Figure 3 is a section on the line'-B of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4.-4of -Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a detail perspective of an end portion of one of the shoulder straps;

Figure 6 is a view of the blank from which the body of the sling and the adjacent end portions ofthe shoulder straps are formed. Referring nowv more particularly to the drawings. the numeral 10 indicates a tubular arm receptacle, from opposite ends of which -extend flexible shoulder straps 11. .Each

shoulder strap 11 has at its end a tape 12 adapted to passI through an' eyelet 13 carried bv the tubular arm receptacle. The eyelets 13 are two in number and are spaced at op*` the opposite side of the center thereof from` positesides of the longitudinal center of thetubular member 10 and arranged adjacent the -upper edge. The tape of each shoulder strap 11 is passed through the eyelet 13 at the end of the tubular member to which the strap is attached, so that the tape engagement in the eyelet, together with the attachment of the end of the shoulder strap to the tubular member 10, provide for support of opposite ends of the tubular member. The shoulder straps have their outerl edges 14 Hush with the outer end of the tubular memher and are increased in thickness attheir attached ends. so that their inner edges 15 connect with the tubular member at the ap proximate center thereof and therefore tend to support the tubular member at its center.

rIhe tapes 12, after passage' through the 65 eyelets 13., are secured together at the front of the tubular member where they may be conveniently arranged for adjustment or release. In the preferred constuction of the device, a rectangular' fabric blank is formed 70 with shallow U-shaped notches 16 at its opposite ends. The blank is then folded, so that the bottoms of the notches 16 and the arms 16a produced by the notches are stitched to one another and to the ends of the bands 17 forming the shoulder straps, as indicated at 18. A tape binding is provided for the coinciding edges of the notches,

as indicated at 19. and-the remaining edges of the tubular arm receptacle and of the shoulderstraps are similarly taped. Metallic eyelets are then placed through the front and rear Walls 20 and 21 of the arm receptacle, reinforcing pads 22 being preferablv positioned between the front and rear a5' walls before the eyelets are inserted there through. Y

It will be obvious that the construction above referred to can be altered considerably without in any manner'departing from the 9o 'spirit of my invention and I accordingly do -bythe tubular receptacles at opposite sides of the longitudinal center thereof and tapes at the ends of the arm straps for passage 10o through said eyelets and connection with one another, said shoulder straps having their outer edges substantially coinciding with the outer ends of the tubular member and their inner ends connected with the 105 tubular member substantially at the center thereof.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature. i

EFFIE M. HORN.

a tubular arm receptacle, '4 

